We’re brimming with heirloom tomatoes from our farm CSA box, but somehow none of my usual uses for tomatoes have seemed appealing lately. The tomatoes this year have been so good that they mostly beg to be eaten straight – sliced with a bit of sea salt and good olive oil, or layered into a [...]
Posted by: Will on August 30th, 2007 © Filed under: Condiments, Preserves | No Comments »
We ate well on our recent visit to south Florida (Key Lime Pie tasting notes and recipe coming soon!), but the trip still left us craving California food. It’s not that the food there is bad, but the food here really is fantastic. Even the burrito we shared in the airport terminal when we landed [...]
Posted by: Will on August 21st, 2007 © Filed under: Preserves | No Comments »
This time of year in California, the farmers markets are overflowing with every imaginable kind of produce. It’s best to keep me away because my acquisitive nature takes over and I want to buy everything – everything. This also happens in art museums, but while I cannot afford to buy art, I can buy pretty [...]
Posted by: Will on July 13th, 2007 © Filed under: Condiments, Preserves | No Comments »
Making jam at home used to be commonplace, but the practice is in quick decline. Most people have forgotten the skills of their grandparent’s generation, and have gotten used to buying everything rather than making it themselves. I think this is mainly due to the convenience factor. It used to be that people made things [...]
Posted by: Will on July 1st, 2007 © Filed under: Preserves | No Comments »
When my brother, Will, and I were still small, my mother and father rigged up a grain mill attached to a bicycle so that they could grind fresh wholegrain flour on demand. That level of dedication may have blossomed in Northern California in the 1970s and died out there in the same decade, but somehow [...]
Posted by: Will on July 1st, 2007 © Filed under: Condiments, Preserves | No Comments »
